The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-22
And Assist That Great Man in Giving to Ire
land the Measures of Justice and Relief
for Which Her Unhappy People Ask.
The Irish Question To Be Again Debat-
ed in the British House of Commons.
A Meeting in New York Protests Against
Further Coercion in IreIand-Nihilists
Betrayed by One of Their Number.
IRELAND'S WRONGS.
Archbishop Lynch Urges Churchill to Join
Hands with Gladstone.
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New YORK March 21-The Herald prints the
following;
..To the Right Honorable Randolph Churchin:
''My Dear Lord Churchll-You must recollect
a prelate from Canada who paid a visit to the vice
regal lodge at Dublin. in 1879, TO thank your
venerable and noble mother, the Duchess Of
Marlborough, for her kindness, liberality and
charity toward the starving Irish. l had the
honor then OF short acquaintance with your
lordship. GA that occasion l predicted you
would become 6. great statesman. The twink
ling of your brilliant eyes, however. portrayed
you would be little FESTIVE for a few years 1
have assiduousy watched your course since
then sometimes with regret (Belfast at other
times with joy, but always with great hope.
The motives of your resigning very honorable
and important post in the Cabinet of England
proved the honor, valor and self-respect of a
great mind. Your motto appears to be Fiat
justitia ruat ccelum.' On this noble disposition
of yours depend much. Now, my dear Lord
Randolph. the object OF this letter is to beg you
to study the Irish question root and branch not
in the spirit of party. but in the spirit of justice
to all men. / am confident from your character
of uprightness and honor that you WILL even for
this once, join Mr.. Gladstone and bring peace
and prosperity to Ireland and effect more stable
union between England and Ireland.
''Your Lordship cannot but feel the disgrace
full contradiction involved in the present attitude
of the British Parliament toward Ireland and
no wonder you away from it at present On
the other hand admitting the injustice of the
landlords exactions and the utter inability of
the tenants to meet them lin consequence OF the
low prices of produce), the British House passes
q law appointing commission to regulate rents,
which results in their being reduced in many in
stances to one-half or third of their former
amount On the other hand the machinery of
that tribunal, being cumbersome and slow
that fifty years would scarcely suffice for the
hearing of all the cases. the landlords are avail
ing themselves of this delay and are pushing
evictions by wholesale, and the British Parlia-
ot,,1fs fxriv steal itvtec IF
the law which should be sacred, by granting the
aid of the police and soldiery to assist sheriffs
and bailiffs in evicting thousands of unfortunate
people, young and old, in the most inclement
season of the year, amid the screams and cries
of starving women and children and the curses
of enraged men, thus helping the landlords to
exact rents which the court appointed by the
government had, in parallel cases, pronounced
flagrantly unjust Does this accord with the
true philosophy of just and legitimate govern
ment? Canrot even the little children of Ireland
see the double dealing and false position of their
rulers, whose laws should command respect, not
contempt? When authority stultifies itself,
people will not be persuaded to respect it. But
authority should conduct itself as to COM
mand the respect of all right minded men.
There should not be in the government Of Ire
: land such mean deception condemning the
landlords for exactine exorbtant rents and then
lending them all the force of British bayonets
and rifles to exact these rents. Whom the gods
wish to destroy they stultify. The rule of in
landlords receive fair rents, not oppressive, and
let them restore to the poor tenants the over
payments Of past years.
There are unmistakable signs in Ems gland of a
growing volcano which trust English prudence
will avert. The embers have been very unwisely
fostered theva To fete Garibaldi and company
is to canoni1s revolution in its worst form
Will the time come when insularity will
begin to l,sye some regard for the honest public
opinion of the world civilized as we'll as uncivil-
lied, which is to-day Mortified at the news of the
inhuman spectacle of evictions whose only
equivalents, according to England's greatest
statesmen of past or modern times, death
warrantsl How the English journals would,
with hypocritical zeal, goat over and publish
the inbumanity of such deeds If these horrid
deeds perpetrated by Catholic govern
ment! How the Pope would be called monster
of iniquity, murdC rer of his people, and to be
dealt with sucn, if during his temporal
power, he had permitted one towns land to be
depopulated; such wholesale and inhuman eve-
tions are only heard of under the British crown.
Signs of high civilization, forsooth; her most
gracious Majesty need not be grateful TO her re-
sponsible Ministers for dsgracing her otherwise
glorious reign of fifty years by periodical OPP
preston of the poor and starving Irish. and fin.
shing it up by more than savage acts OF
cruelty, and the violation of all true laws and
order.
II shall pass over the fearful prosecutions in.
f1icted the Irish for consciences sake. But
the ruins of our churches, monaSteres, colleges,
hospitals ETC., that stud the land. are the stern
witnesses to all future generations of the worst
pagan crueltes practiced on the Catholic Irish
to rob them of their true faith. Conscience tri-
umphs in the end
Now let US take another view of the Irish
wrongs. The Irish element in the United States
is becoming more and more powerful. Your
English papers sometimes remark, when states
man in this country speaks disparagingly of
England, that he is trying to catch the Irish
vote. By that they acknowledge that the Irish
vote is great factor in America. and the same
may be said of Australia and other English
speaking countries where the Irish congreeate
and multiply, and prosper. Hence you must
conclude that numbers will tell, and the com
bined Irish are a powerful ingredient in the
government of this country, and the power Of
their organizations is increasing every
day. They hold already the balance of power in
the presidential and other elections This is be
yond dispute. You may judge Of their temper
from the tone which Americans take in the pres
ent fishery dispute 1t is said that we in Canads
live under the British flag by the liberation Of
the United States. When there was question
of enlistinS volunteers for our defense one Of
our chief statesmen said What use in this ex
pense? The chief guard of five millions of PEG
Die in the face of fifty will be good behavior
But good behavior means now, it appears to le
the Americans do as they like. English forces
are distant Better good neiehbors nea
than blood relations at distance Let us finish
nv dear Lord, this perhaps too long letter by
imporipg you again and again to help you
country tEngland) out of the murky chaos il
which she is, and induce her to do Justice q
length to Ireland. Don't wait for the oppor
tunity of the oppressed Irish. Ill treatment an,
calumnies will never reconcile former friends o
foes Union is strength, and the condition o
the Irish at home and abroad does not add t.
the strength or honor of England. We mus
not forget how the great Roman empire fell
England is not beyond the reach of eterna
justice.
Il have the honor to subscribe myself wit
the highest consideration. your Lor1ship's dc
voted servant JOHN JOSEPH LYNCH,
Archbishop of Toronto.
"Sr MIcHAEL's PALACE, TORONTO. Canada Marcel
Is, 1887"
Another Great Debate in Prospect.
LONDON, March 21.--Right Hon A. j. Balfou
Chief Secretary for Ireland. intimated in tn